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I was browsing the site of the British Orthodox Church and noticed in their schedule of services that they listed 'Raising of Incense' about 45 minutes before the Divine Liturgy. Could someone explain to me what this means?

Brigid

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BrÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â­d Naomhtha, Mhuire na nGaeil, GuÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â­ Orainn

Hypo-Ortho

Brigid, the British Orthodox Church is Coptic, is it not? The "Raising of Incense" could be part of or equivalent to the Proskomedia in our Orthodox Byzantine Divine Liturgy. It would be nice to hear from our Oriental Orthodox brethren on your question.

The British Orthodox Church is under the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, but they worship exactly like they did before they came into full Communion with the Coptic Church. I believe they use the Liturty of St. James, while we usually use the Liturgy of St. Basil.

Second, I had a question about the BOC. You said they use the Liturgy of Saint James. Do they use the Byzantine version of the Saint James, or the Syriac version?

Thank you!

I just found this page: http://www.uk-christian.net/boc/stjames.shtml , aparently I was wrong, they did start using it later, that page explains the change. I don't know if it answers your question, I don't know enough about this stuff.

I cannot enumerate the differences, but suffice it to say that a reading of the Byzantine Saint James on Archimandrite Ephrem's website (Anastasis something or the other, it comes out of the UK, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) shows a heavy Byzantine influence. In fact, I couldn't find too much that matched up with our Saint James. Then again, I didn't read it terribly close, so maybe I missed something. However, to me, it seemed like two entirely different services.

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